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            <title><![CDATA[New Cannibalistic Robots Consume Other Machines to Grow and Heal on Their Own]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Learn how “robot metabolism” allows machines to take material from their surroundings to “grow” and to “heal."]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[It's Possible to Manipulate This New Interactive Hologram, Which Could Improve Medical Technology ]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Meet FlexiVol, and interactive 'hologram' that users can manipulate and change, leading to more in-depth analysis of medical scans and even improved video games. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Quantum Communication Milestone Could Pave Way for Faster, More Secure Internet ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Learn how physicists were able to send quantum signals through fiber optic telecom system.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Laser Tech May Have Discovered a New Color Never Before Seen by Human Eye]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Learn more about Olo, a new color that researchers at UC-Berkeley may have just discovered.  ]]></description>
            <author>Monica Cull</author>
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            <title><![CDATA["Unjammable" Quantum Sensors Navigate by Earth's Magnetic Field]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With aircraft increasingly targeted by GPS jammers, the search for new ways to navigate is hotting up.   ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lasers Could Help Detect Nano- and Microplastics in Bodily Fluids]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Learn more about the research project that’s helping experts analyze the nanoplastics in the human body. ]]></description>
            <author>Monica Cull</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[ChatGPT4.5 Crosses The Turing Test Threshold ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Machines have never been able to pass as humans in Turing's famous test of intelligence. That has finally changed. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Quantum Computing Approach Generates First Ever Truly Random Number]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The task, which even conventional supercomputers can’t perform, could improve online security and make some processes, such as choosing a jury, truly fair.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Programmable Photonic Chips Are Set To Shape the Future of Optics   ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A new generation of nonlinear photonic chips are set to usher optics into a dynamic, programmable era.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Power Generated From Earth's Movement Through its Own Magnetic Field]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nearly two centuries after Faraday’s failed attempts, scientists have demonstrated that Earth's continuous spin can directly generate electrical current.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mimicking Human Skin, This Self-Healing Gel Could be Applied to Soft Robotics]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Learn more about the self-healing hydrogel that could help improve biomedical tools. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Advanced Robotic Surgeries are Minimally Invasive, Helping Patients Heal Faster]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Learn more about robotic surgeries and how they're helping make procedures easier for doctors and patients. ]]></description>
            <author>Avery Hurt</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Self-Driving Cars Are Communicating Better – What Does This Mean for Our Safety?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Discover how contributing to the future of automobiles also means improving the way they talk to each other.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shark Skin and Cicada Wings Inspire New Antimicrobial Cutting Boards]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Cutting-edge kitchen safety gets a boost thanks to nature's bacteria-resistant strategies.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Can AI Coding Systems Earn $1 Million As Freelancers? ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[OpenAI researchers challenged cutting edge AI systems to tackle software development tasks that humans had been paid $1 million to solve. This is how they performed. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Microsoft Quantum Computing Chip Could Revolutionize the Industry ]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Swarm of Cyborg Insects Might Save You From Disaster]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Researchers have hacked living cockroaches to create new search-and-rescue tech.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[There Is a New, Third Category of Magnet and it Could Boost Computer Memory ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scientists discover altermagnets, which have favorable properties of both of the two other kinds.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[DeepSeek Delivers Mixed Bag of Benefits, Concerns to AI Industry ]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[While the tool may require less chips to operate and demand smaller fees to run, it may also carry security risks.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Music's Soundscape Is Becoming Simpler over Time ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Over centuries, musical complexity has evolved alongside culture and technology. Network science is now revealing how  ]]></description>
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